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Richard Mason


Born
in Manchester, England
May 16, 1919

Died
October 13, 1997

Genre
Literature & Fiction


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Richard Mason was an English novelist. Born near Manchester, he was educated in Dorset, then worked first on a film magazine and later for the British Council. The Second World War gave him a chance to learn Japanese and he became an interrogator of prisoners of war.

Mason wrote The Wind Cannot Read which was finished during the Burma Campaign; The Shadow and the Peak (filmed as Passionate Summer, starring Dirk Bogarde); and The Fever Tree, a story of espionage set in India and Nepal.

His experiences while living in Hong Kong inspired him to write The World of Suzie Wong. This was adapted into a Broadway play in 1958 ...more

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Average rating: 3.9 · 1,433 ratings · 138 reviews · 4 distinct works • Similar authors
The World of Suzie Wong
3.91 avg rating — 1,253 ratings — published 1957 — 82 editions
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The Wind Cannot Read
3.95 avg rating — 147 ratings — published 1946 — 56 editions
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The fever tree
3.32 avg rating — 19 ratings — published 1962 — 14 editions
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The Shadow and the Peak
3.29 avg rating — 14 ratings — published 1950 — 13 editions
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“He doesn't want to hurt anybody , you know. He is good, nice, kind. But he has got a small heart --- to small to hold much feeling. Maybe just enough for himself, but not enough feeling to give out to anybody. He couldn't really love anybody, that man. - Suzie Wong (The World of Suzie Wong)”
― Richard Mason
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